Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell, 2013
Two misfit teenagers on the same school bus in 1986 fall for each other over comics and mix tapes, while home life makes ordinary survival feel radical.
Rainbow Rowell
Rowell writes teenagers with a steady, unromantic tenderness: the bus seat, the shared comic, the mix tape that says what neither of them can. «Eleanor & Park» and «Fangirl» both take ordinary awkwardness seriously and let small acts of attention carry real weight. Start with «Fangirl» if you want a college story about a shy writer finding her own life, or «Eleanor & Park» if you want two misfits on a 1986 school bus making survival feel radical.
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Rainbow Rowell was a newspaper columnist and copy editor at the Omaha World-Herald, in the Nebraska city where this novel is set.
The private freedom music promises once a teenager can finally drive.
He could get back to New Wave in November, after he got his driver’s license. His parents had already said Park could have his mom’s Impala, and he’d been saving up for a new tape deck. Once he started driving to school, he could listen to whatever he wanted or nothing at all, and he’d get to sleep in an extra twenty minutes. Books by Rainbow Rowell
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